Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-05-16
BASE BALL.
The ssreenh0ods a. MOraus Van.
autsh tho Pioneers.

There was quite large attendance a
Agricultural Park yesterday Afternoon
to witness the game between the Green
hoods & Morans, of oakland, and thu
Pioneers, of San Francisco. As nigh
have been expected, the game was wor
by the former nine, the score standing al
the close six to two in favor OF the
Greenhoods 4 Morans. While there
was nothing very brilliant about the
playing of either of the mines, the game
was good one and was finished in a
shorter time than was expected. The
batting by either club was not very
strong, and this seems to be The main
weakness of all of the California clubs.
OF the tive, perhaps the men Of the
Pioneers wero the hetter al the bat,
but the iielders Of the opposing
nine happened to be too close
to where the ball fell every time to pre-
vent them to gain much by their ability
to hit Van Haltren. With the exception
of the second basemen of both mines the
fielding was good, but both of those gem
tlemen added several errors to their
lists, especially Hayes. of the Pioneers.
In the first inning Van Haltren COM
menced by making two bagger, but be
only got as far as third, McCord going
out on first base and Blakeston on fly
to left field. Taylor, of the Pioneers,
succee led in getting as far an first base,
where he was left when Smith struck
out. In the second inning the Morans
went out in one, two, three order, Ryan
going out on first base, Mcdonald on a
fly to tirst base. and Guerneit on fly to
third base. Perrier, of the Pioneers, sent
grounder to second base, and managed
to get as far as third base. where he was
forced out, with Caveny and Buckley
running, and Carol out on fly to first
base. McMullin went out Immediately
after on first base, leaving Caveny
on third and Buckley on second
base. No runs were made nm
til the fourth inning, when
the Greenwood & Morans succeeded in
getting in three. Van Haltren took
first base on called balls and managed to
reach third, and directly afterward Ryan
and Mcdonald succeeded in reaching
home base on an error of the Pioneers |
second base man. In the fifth inning |
Van Haltren!reached home ON two base |
hit made by McCord, who also scored. |
This made the score five to nothing but |
Gogus, of the Pioneers, took first base
on an error of Guernett and stole both |
second and third, reaching home on
hit Of Taylor. No more runs were made |
until the eighth inning when Ryan, OF
the Morans, reached third on an error OF
second baseman and went home on Don.
ovan's fly to tho left field In this
inning Taylor and Smith, of the
Pioneers, scored and in the last inning
neither club succeeded in getting run.
During the latter part of the game Car.
roll, catcher for the Pioneers, hurt one
of his fingers and went into the field,
Smith taking his place behind the bat.
The batteries of both teams were very |
good. Van Haltren did not let any one |
reach. first base on balls and McMullen |
of the Pioneers, only allowed two. The
score by innings was as follows;
G: & MS .........e . Q ) . Q . j 90
Pioneers .."......0 0 U o--3
AT SANTA MONICA.
The game at Santa Monica yesterday,
between the Los Angeles and Santa
Monica teams, attracted large and APP
precative audience. IL was hotly con.
tested and was decidedly the best game
ever played in this section of the State.
Both clubs played almost perfectly and
are very evenly matched. 1t was a
pitchers game, Farrell of Santa Monica
leading in strike outs, Swan in base hits.
Both intields played great game and
the outfields gathered in everything that
came their way. Victor made very
timely hit for Santa Monica, as did
Torner for Los Angeles. 1t looked for
a while as though neither club would
make run, as the following score by
innings will attest:
Los lsnlnssii hnsseies 3 3 Q z "a
Santa Monica o 0 o 0 o o.
This latter was said to be decidedly
better game in every respect than that
played by the Greenwood Il Morans and
Pioneers at Agricultural Park, and the
was much larger. People
begin to think that we have enough |
baseball talent in Southern California
and fail to see the necessity of import
ing lot Of up-country fellows. 1t is
probable that the bringing OF the two
so called strong teams to Los Angeles
cost somebody about 1000. and it will
be decidedly cool day before another
such importation is made. In the mesn-
time encourage our home clubs,